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neighbourhood of the Mulgrave and Russell Rivers, in North- 

 Eastern Queensland. Mr. Cairn, who found several nests of this 

 species, states they are usually built in the tangled roots of 

 " lawyer vines," but not unfrequently on the top of the elk's-horn 

 fern, as high as twelve feet from the ground. The nest is a 

 large bulky dome-shaped structure with an entrance on one side, 

 it is composed of twigs, roots and mosses, chiefly a species of 

 Hypnum, so loosely put together that it will not bear removal. 

 Unlike its southern ally 0. spinicaudus, it appears that only 

 one egg is laid for a sitting. A nest found near "Boar Pocket," 

 on the 20th June last, contained but one egg in an advanced 

 state of incubation, others were found as late as the middle 

 of August. The breeding season this year (1889) would appear 

 to be from May till the end of September, young birds being 

 procured in June, but as in other parts of Australia the breeding 

 season of birds is greatly influenced by the rains. The eggs, 

 which are pure white, vary from elongated to swollen ovals, some 

 being equal in size at each end. Two average sized specimens 

 measure : — (A) 1-45 x 1 inch ; (B) 1-38 x 1-1 inch.* „ 



Hab. Rockingham Bay. (Ramsay.) 



TRICHOGLOSSUS CHLOROLEPIDOTUS, Kuhl 

 Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. 

 Gould, Handblc. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 446, p. 96. -^ — 



Mr. George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, writes as follows 

 relative to the nidification of this species : — "Last season (1889) 

 my sons found two nests of Trichoglossus cJilorolepidotus, each 

 with two eggs in them, these are the only occasions that I have 

 known the nests to contain more than one egg for a sitting, all 

 other nests (seven in number) found previously of this species had 

 only one egg in, sometimes fresh, at other times heavily incubated, 

 it may have been accidental and struck me as being strange at the 

 time, but I think two eggs must be the proper number for a sitting." 



* North, Eeo. Aus. Mus., Vol. i., part i., p. 38. 



